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Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.


Martin Freeman


#as far as #clothes #concerned #contact #creative

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.


Arthur Goldberg


#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.


Aldous Huxley


#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.


Ben Bernanke


#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.


James Bovard


#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.


Lisi Harrison


#guilt #mistakes #passive-deathwish #regret #remorse

Guilt loves the passive.


Jonathan Price


#passive #love

Love without sacrifice is like theft


Nassim Nicholas Taleb


#love #manipulation #marriage #marriage-advice #narcissism

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."


Daniel J. Boorstin


#active #adventure #expects #experience #goes

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#dislike #envy #hate #hatred #passive






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